King of Thieves

Qingyang Palace was originally the place where Emperor Juping dealt with political affairs. After Zhu Tian entered the palace, in order to destroy the Yin family's temperament, he built a large-scale construction project to rebuild the palace, and built the main hall for discussing politics on the former site of Qingyang Palace.

Forced by Zhu Tian, ​​Xuan Jin stepped into the hall slowly, and saw the lapis lazuli dragon chair symbolizing the supreme majesty of Emperor Juping. However, except for this chair, all the furnishings were extremely simple. There was even a tiger skin under the chair.

A robber is a robber, even wearing a dragon robe can't change the reckless spirit in his bones!Xuan Jin yawned secretly, found a chair to sit down on his own, and listened to Zhu Tian discussing important matters with his subordinates boredly.

"...The Xuanlong Kingdom's four thousand cavalry have set off for the Bailang Salt Field, and the minister and others have ordered the post station officials to help them along the way."

Zhu Tian nodded, turned his head to Xuan Jin and said with a smile: "The Bailang Salt Farm is near the seashore, if there is no delay on the way, we will be there in five or six days."

"Well, my lord knows."

Xuan Jin didn't sleep well after the nightmare last night, and was dragged up by Zhu Tian early in the morning, sitting in the chair at the moment was extremely sleepy, his upper and lower eyelids were constantly fighting, and after hearing the words, he managed to cheer up and sit properly, continue The audience chattered about the military situation in various places.

The Yin family has a deep foundation in Juping, and has many old officials and soldiers following it, it is far from being eradicated overnight by the rebels.Since capturing several important border towns, the morale of the Yin army has been greatly improved, and the troops are divided into three groups, approaching Yongji separately.

Most of the generals of Zhu Tian's rebel army were pirates, and they are fierce alone, but in terms of marching and strategizing, they are far inferior to the battle-tested generals under Yin's command.Besides, although there are some surrendered soldiers in Zhu Tian's army, the number is not many, most of the ordinary soldiers are hungry and wandering bandits, it's hard for them to be responsible.

In a short period of time, the Yin army has captured several cities, and the situation is very unfavorable for Zhu Tian.

"Brother, in my opinion, it's better to take Yin Changhua's son to the front of the battle to force him to surrender. No matter how bad it is, they will be able to extinguish their arrogance." Zhu Tian's powerful arm in the sea in the past.

Zhu Tian categorically vetoed: "No. With Yue Zhanxiao here, he won't make anyone admire the Crown Prince. Besides, I also made an agreement with him that after the capture of Yongji, Yin Changhua and his son will be dealt with by him. I can't break my promise. Old Gui Three, you should think of another way.”

Gui Laosan felt ashamed and was very unconvinced, but thinking of Yue Zhanxiao's skill, it was true that no one present could win Yue Zhanxiao's hand.He said anxiously: "Then what should we do? The brothers have lost a few battles, and the morale of the army is very messed up. If this continues, I'm afraid..."

"Old man Gui, how do you let other people's aspirations destroy your own prestige?" The others listened harshly and argued with him.

"Okay, stop arguing!" Zhu Tian shouted to stop everyone, and said, "Since we were able to drive Yin Changhua out of Yongji that day, are we still afraid that he will fail today? Besides, Xuanlong and I have already formed an alliance, and if necessary You can use the strength of the Xuanlong to act. Lord Ziyang, don’t you think so?”

No one answered him.Zhu Tian turned his head in surprise, and saw Xuan Jin nestled in the seat without any image, drooping his head, and fell asleep.

Everyone laughed dumbfounded.

Zhu Tian couldn't help shaking his head again and again, and told Feng Yu: "Send King Ziyang back to Hengbo Hall to rest."

Feng Yu agreed, picked up Xuan Jin and just took two steps, when Zhu Tian suddenly called out: "Slow! Let me do it."

"Huh?" Feng Yu was stunned, Zhu Tian had strode up to him, seeing Feng Yu was still hugging Xuan Jin, he couldn't help but stare fiercely.

"Don't let go yet!" He secretly thought that this guy Xuan Jin was interested in Feng Yu, and he couldn't let these two people have a chance to hook up.

"Yes, Master." Feng Yu was taken aback by the jealousy on Zhu Tian's face, and hurriedly handed Xuan Jin into Zhu Tian's hands, secretly smacking her tongue at Zhu Tian's walking back.Unexpectedly, the master was so interested in Prince Ziyang that he wouldn't even let others touch him.

But according to this situation, after the expiration of three months, is Master still willing to let Prince Ziyang go back to Xuanlong?Feng Yu frowned slightly, her eyes covered with a hint of worry.

"Your surname is Yue, just wait and see..." Xuan Jin walked slowly on the path in the garden, thinking about it.

Ever since Chaoshang fell asleep that morning, Zhu Tian no longer insisted that he follow Chaoshang.Xuan Jin is naturally thankful, these days he ate and slept soundly in Hengbo Hall, his waist injury is almost healed at last.Today I went out for a walk to relieve my boredom, but after a short walk, my waist started to ache again.

This mouthful of bad breath is too useless.He was depressed when he suddenly saw a few men who looked like porters passing by with a few carts led by guards.The cart is surrounded by wooden boards on all sides, and it is filled with red sandstone.

"What is this?" Xuan Jin asked casually.

The guard recognized Xuan Jin, and said respectfully: "Go back to your lord, these cinnabars are going to be transported to the elixir for refining medicine."

Xuan Jin let out a groan, watched everyone leave, and suddenly remembered what Zhu Tian said that day, could it be that he wanted to refine an antidote for Yue Zhanxiao?

"Haha, just in time!"

He was worried that he would not be able to avenge that fall, but the opportunity came to him automatically.He's going to the alchemy room to do some tricks in those medicinal materials, so that the surname Yue will never see the light of day again!

Xuan Jin thought of what he was proud of, and his spirits were greatly lifted. He didn't even feel pain in his back, and secretly followed the people in front of him.

When the group of people pushed the cart and passed the woods in front of the Jingci Garden, the last porter stopped abruptly, clutching his stomach and screaming in pain. "Oh, I, I'm afraid I've eaten my stomach... No, no..."

The guard frowned, but he was in a hurry, so he didn't care too much, he waved his hand and said, "Find a place to do business, and then go to the alchemy room by yourself, it's behind the red wall in front." The rest of the porters continued on their way.

Xuan Jin followed lightly, seeing that the porter didn't untie his trousers, just squatting in the grass and screaming in pain, he knew something was wrong, so he quickly dodged and hid behind a tree.

Sure enough, as soon as the guard walked away, the porter immediately jumped up, swept away the timid look before, looked around sharply, seeing no one around, he stretched out his body, and rushed into the forest.

This guy is sneaky, there must be some conspiracy!Xuan Jin's appetite was completely whetted by curiosity at this moment, and he wanted to follow in to find out, but he was afraid of Yue Zhanxiao.

After hesitating for a while, I decided to go to the Qingyang Palace and tell Zhu Tianwei that the porter is probably Yin Changhua's subordinate, and he sneaked into the palace to discuss the war with Yue Zhanxiao. It is also possible to kill Zhu Tian's pig's head.

In fact, he didn't care at all whether Yin Changhua or Zhu Tian was the emperor.However, who told Yue Zhanxiao to offend him, and finally caught the handle of Yue, how could he let it go.

Just as Xuan Jin raised his foot to leave, there was an extremely low voice in the forest.

"General Yue, you really don't want me to take Prince Mu away? We spent a lot of effort to sneak into the palace, and ensure that the prince can be safely brought out of the palace and sent back to the emperor. Could it be that General Yue still can't trust us?"

Contrary to the resentment in the porter's words, Yue Zhanxiao said unhappily: "Go back and tell the emperor that Prince Mu is safe with me, don't worry about him."

"This--"

The porter was still waiting to lobby, but Yue Zhanxiao suddenly let out a cold smile: "Your Majesty knows that Prince Mu is ill and needs me to heal him, so why would he ask someone to take him away? This action should be your own idea. You guys It's too bold to enter the palace without permission, why don't you leave quickly? If Zhu Tian is alarmed, it will be difficult for you to leave."

The porter broke out in a cold sweat, afraid to say any more, and hurried out of the woods.

Xuan Jin saw that he couldn't walk, so he shrank his body behind the tree again, secretly thinking that he would go to Zhu Tian after the porter went to the alchemy room.Unexpectedly, the porter stopped by the cart and had no intention of leaving.Xuan Jin had no choice but to hold his breath as much as possible to avoid being discovered.

After about a cup of tea time, there was a sound of footsteps from far to near, accompanied by the wheels, and several other people returned with an empty cart.

Everyone was smiling, but when they saw the porter shaking his head sadly, they were all taken aback, and said in a low voice: "Isn't it possible?"

"General Yue refuses to let him go." The porter sighed, pushed up his cart, and said, "Let's talk about it after leaving the palace. Where's the guard? Is there—" He gestured to wipe his neck as he spoke.

"Naturally kill him, or the news will leak out." Those people followed the porter back and forth, and one of them caught a glimpse of Xuan Jin's robe protruding from the tree body.

"Someone!" The man jumped behind the tree, stretched out his hand and grabbed Xuan Jin.

Before Xuan Jin could react, he was grabbed by the man and flung him into the bushes so hard that his eyes stared like gold stars.He was about to cry out for pain, but the man quickly pressed his mouth.

"Hmm..." He struggled to get up, the porter stepped forward and stepped on his chest, Xuan Jin suffered from pain, and finally stopped moving.

The porter looked down at him, "Isn't this the man just now? The guard called him the prince, could it be Zhu Tian's brother? But I never heard that the traitor Zhu Tian has a younger brother!"

Blind your dog eyes, this king is so handsome, how could he be brothers with that scar face?If it wasn't for his mouth being covered, Xuan Jin would have cursed at that person, but now he can only stare wide-eyed.

The man who caught him looked murderous, and said in a low voice: "Whoever he is, this man has been hiding behind a tree and knows too much, so we can't keep him."

He raised his palm to chop, but was stopped by the porter. "Don't kill him yet. This man is of extraordinary status, it would be more useful to keep him. Take him away!"

He seemed to have a higher status than the others, and none of them objected, they took hemp rope from the car and tied Xuan Jin's five flowers into a human meat dumpling, and stuffed a smelly rag in their mouths.

Xuan Jin was almost fainted by the stench, and his heart was so regretful that he wanted to hit the wall.

If I had known this fate, I wouldn't have followed him if I killed him.Now I can only hope that bastard Zhu Tian will end his morning court soon, and if we don't see him in Hengbo Hall, maybe he will come here again... He kept praying to God from the bottom of his heart, when suddenly his body lightened, and he was already captured by the two of them. lifted up.

The porter stretched out his hand and removed all the cinnabar on the cart. It turned out that his cart had another mystery. It seemed to be piled up with sand and gravel, but in fact it was only a thin layer. A box for people.He lifted the board and urged, "Put him in quickly!"

Xuan Jin was angry and hated, but he couldn't resist at all.This box was originally prepared for the rescue of Prince Mu, it was more than enough to hide a child, adults had some difficulties, only Xuan Jin was forced into the box, and then covered with wooden boards, his eyes were suddenly dark.

There was a constant sound of "cracking" above the head, and everyone piled the cinnabar on the cart again until the board was completely covered.Seeing that there was no flaw, the porter nodded and pushed the cart. "Walk!"

Doesn't Zhu Tian always love to pester him?He disappeared at such a critical moment, what a bastard... Xuan Jin greeted Zhu Tianzu's eighteen generations in his stomach, but the wheels rolling under him gradually slowed down.

It turned out that he had already reached the exit of Miyagi, and the guard stepped forward and asked, "Why is this cart of cinnabar useless?"

The porter put on a face of fear, nodded and bowed his head and said: "Go back to the official, the people in the alchemy room said that the color of my cinnabar is not good enough, it can't be used for refining medicine, and told me to take it back."

The guard looked again, and seeing nothing unusual, he let everyone out of the palace.

Xuan Jin nestled in the box, only felt that the road he traveled was very smooth at the beginning, but slowly became more and more bumpy, obviously he had left the official road and walked to a remote place.

I don't know where this group of people are going to take him... As he was beating his heart out, the cart suddenly stopped, followed by the cinnabar being dumped on the side of the road.

The moment the board was moved away, Xuan Jin took a deep breath of fresh air, and the next moment, he was carried out by the porter.

This is already outside the city, the grass is overgrown, there are still a carriage and a few horses parked by the roadside, before Xuan Jin can see clearly, the back of the neck was slashed heavily by the porter with a hand knife, he groaned and fainted immediately.

"After changing clothes, get out of here!"

Everyone quickly put on the bodyguard outfit, stuffed Xuan Jin into the carriage, and galloped away on horseback.

Zhu Tian finished discussing the marching deployment with his subordinates, walked out of the Qingyang Hall, and was on the way to the Hengbo Hall, when he suddenly felt his eyelids twitching and his mind was restless, he couldn't help calling evil.What storms and waves have I not experienced, when did I become so easily flustered?

It must be because he hasn't touched Xuan Jin for several days, and he is dissatisfied with his desires, which makes him feel impetuous.Thinking of Xuan Jin, the corners of Zhu Tian's mouth couldn't help a wicked smile.That idiot prince's waist injury is almost healed, and Xuan Jin will have to make it up to him later.

"I'm almost hurt internally because of you." Zhu Tian touched the countless small bumps on his face and sighed, but he was also very complacent.In the past, how could he have wronged himself, he would have gone to a woman to vent his anger, but now Xuan Jin has cultivated his concentration.

While laughing, he strode into the Hengbo Hall with great strides.

Xuan Jin was not there.When Zhu Tian asked the maid, he learned that Xuan Jin had been out for a walk for quite some time and hadn't returned yet.

Zhu Tian waited for a while, but still did not see Xuan Jin coming back. He couldn't help feeling anxious, thinking to himself that there were still a few concubines left by Yin Changhua living in the harem, so maybe that lustful guy went somewhere to prostitute again?

Jealousy surged up, he couldn't sit still, he went out of the Hengbo Hall to find people, asked the guards along the way, and they all said that he had never seen Prince Ziyang.After searching around, there was still no trace of Xuan Jin, Zhu Tian's two thick eyebrows finally slowly wrinkled—that kid, did he fly into the sky?

He was waiting for someone to investigate thoroughly, Feng Yu ran away with a panicked face: "Master, this disciple just went to the alchemy room to check the progress of refining medicine, and found that the guards there were killed."

Zhu Tian was stunned, and hurriedly asked Feng Yu: "Where are those herbs? Who else has been in and out of the alchemy room today?"

"The herbs are all there, and other things are not missing. My disciple has already asked, the person who delivered the cinnabar today has been to the elixir room." Feng Yu was extremely intelligent, and immediately understood, and said, "I will go and find out the whereabouts of those people. "

He went in a hurry.Zhu Tian's expression became more and more serious. He originally thought that Xuan Jin wanted to take revenge on Yue Zhanxiao, so he sneaked into the alchemy room and wreaked havoc, but when he heard that the herbs were safe, he immediately overturned his guess.

That idiot, who has a smart face, is really confused, and he is still missing right now, so what happened?The more Zhu Tian thought about it, the more he worried about Xuan Jin, and his chest seemed to be squeezed tightly.Suddenly, he strode away and went straight to the stables.

Xuan Jin's first feeling after regaining consciousness was a sharp pain in his neck, and then he felt something heavy in his abdomen, and he habitually stretched out his hand to push without opening his eyelids.

"Hey, Zhu, get off your thick legs!"

Hey, why can't he move his hands?Hearing a few more sneers, Xuan Jin finally woke up, opened his eyes, saw his surroundings clearly, and couldn't help gasping.

It was a big dark room.He was lying on the ground, his hands and feet were still bound tightly, almost numb.The porter was stepping on his belly, and several other people were standing around, all of them had unkind faces.

Through the gap between the crowd, Xuan Jin saw more than ten coffins placed in the room, his scalp went numb for a while, and he stuttered and asked, "What the hell is this place?"

Seeing him turning blue with fright, the porter said contemptuously: "You should take care of yourself first! Tell me, who are you, Zhu Tian's traitor?"

These people were subordinates of the former emperor, if they believed that he and Zhu Tian were in the same group, he might be killed on the spot.Xuan Jin broke out in cold sweat on his forehead, tried to stay calm, and hurriedly cleared things up: "I have nothing to do with that bastard. Ah——"

The stomach was stepped on hard, and Xuan Jin's face was twisted into a ball in pain.

"If you don't tell the truth, don't blame me for stepping out your intestines!"

The porter sneered sullenly, based on what Xuan Jin said when he just woke up, he could conclude that this person was definitely very close to Zhu Tian, ​​and looked at Xuan Jin a few times, showing a suddenly realized expression, and sneered: " I understand, I heard that Zhu Tian's rebel has always been a man and woman, and you look good, hehe, you are probably his bedside man. Am I right, my lord?"

He deliberately ridiculed Xuan Jin, and at the end the word "Prince" dragged on, and he said it in a strange and mocking voice, and the people around him burst into laughter.

Xuan Jin was furious, especially when the phrase "people on the bed" stepped on his sore foot, and scolded in a fever: "You blind people, do you know that this king belongs to Xuanlong?" King Ziyang, are you here as a guest in Juping Palace?"

Xuanlong has recently conquered Yanxue, Pu'an, Chili and other countries one after another.When everyone suddenly heard Xuan Jin's words, they were all startled, and their expressions changed drastically.

Scared after finally knowing?Xuan Jin thought proudly.

The porter slowly put his feet back, exchanged winks with the others, walked aside and said in a low voice: "When I entered Yongji, I did hear that the rebel Zhu Tian made an alliance with the Xuanlong, and brought the Xuanlong with him. The honored guest returns to the palace. What the kid said may be true.”

"Then what should we do?" Everyone else realized the seriousness of the situation. "We have offended Emperor Xuanlong. If Xuanlong sends troops to assist Zhu Tian, ​​wouldn't the emperor's great cause of restoring the country be far away?"

Another person even murmured: "We acted privately this time. We wanted to save Prince Mu and make a great contribution. This is good, but instead we caused a big mess..."

The porter had a sullen face, and everyone in the audience began to complain. He coughed fiercely and reprimanded: "Stop arguing! This is the end of the matter, we can only kill him."

The rest of the people looked at each other, and they all saw fear on the other's face.

"Are you afraid of being retaliated by the Emperor Xuanlong, so you dare not kill him?" The porter easily saw through everyone's thoughts, shook his head and said, "We kicked and scolded that Ziyang King earlier, and we have offended him enough, even if we let him go now, it will be too late." It doesn't help, why don't you just kill him and put the blame on the traitor Zhu Tian. If Prince Ziyang disappears in Juping, Emperor Xuanlong will definitely ask Zhu Tian for someone, and the traitor won't be able to hand him over. ..." He sneered twice and stopped talking.

The rest looked at each other and nodded slowly.Although he didn't want to provoke Xuanlong, but now that he was riding a tiger, he really had no other choice.

Xuan Jin, who was left on the sidelines, was waiting to be suffocated, unaware that his life was at stake, so he put on a majestic majesty, and said arrogantly: "What are you still muttering over there, why don't you come quickly and untie this king?"

"Prince Ziyang, please be safe and don't be impatient. I will untie the prince here." The porter approached with a smile on his face.

Before Xuan Jin had time to be happy, the porter pinched his mouth open with a pain in his jaw, and the ball of rags was stuffed into his mouth.

"Hmm!" His eyes widened, and he finally realized that something was wrong.

Look at the murderous look in the porter's eyes, don't you want his life? !When the porter drew out the sharp waist knife, Xuan Jin's mind went blank with a bang, followed by a gust of cold air rushing straight to the sky - it seems that he, the Ziyang King, is doomed today and will die in a foreign land.

He knew that coming to Juping would not be a good thing.Sure enough, she didn't "die" on Zhu Tian's bed, but she still couldn't escape bad luck because of Zhu Tian's involvement.

The surname Zhu is all your fault!Even if I'm a ghost, I won't let you go!Xuan Jin gritted his teeth in his heart, even mistook the porter for Zhu Tian, ​​and stared at him desperately.

Stared fiercely by Xuan Jin's bloodshot eyes, the porter hesitated a bit.His subordinates had killed many rebels, but it was the first time he had slaughtered a high-ranking royal family, especially the prince of the Xuanlong Kingdom.

"What's wrong?" Another person asked him strangely.

The porter laughed dryly, not wanting people to know that he was timid before the battle, so he pretended to be calm and said: "He is also a prince after all, and he has no grievances or enmities with us, so let's leave his whole body." Seeing those coffins, he suddenly had an idea .

In order to act secretly, they sneaked into Yongji and bought this secluded coffin shop as a place to stay.There are more than a dozen empty coffins in the house, which are just in use at this moment.

He pushed away the lid of one of the coffins, and instructed others to put Xuan Jin into the coffin, and then pushed the heavy lid on.

This is obviously to starve him to death in the coffin, which is more painful than killing him with a knife.Xuan Jin was frightened and angry, arched his body, and hit the coffin lid with all his strength, but he couldn't shake it a little bit, and there were several big bumps on his forehead in vain.

The tinkling sound came to his ears through the coffin. After he was stunned for a moment, he realized that those people were hammering iron nails to nail the coffin lid to death.Not to mention that he was bound and unable to move, even if his hands and feet were free, he would definitely not be able to open the coffin lid and escape from the inside.

The last long iron nail was knocked into the coffin lid, and everyone closed the door, got on their horses and drove away.

Unwilling to stand still, Xuan Jin slammed into the dark coffin for a while, finally resigned to his fate and stopped the useless struggle, staring at the coffin lid and gasping for breath.

The shadow of death has never approached like this moment. Under the strong fear, Xuan Jin's whole body trembled uncontrollably.

He hasn't enjoyed his wonderful life to the fullest, he doesn't want to just die like this!

Throughout the first half of his life, he also knew that he was incapable of writing or martial arts. He was idle all day long and had never done anything serious. I am afraid that in the eyes of the empress mother and brother who love him the most, he is just an absurd useless wretch. , but he shouldn't even die so uselessly...

I don't know how long it will take for someone to break into this ghostly place and find his bones?By then he would have probably rotted into a daunting pile of carrion.Thinking of that miserable scene, Xuan Jin felt the corners of his eyes warm up, his face was wet, and he actually shed tears.

When he died, the queen mother must be very sad.Brother Huang will shed two tears for him anyway if he fights with his brother, right?

As for Zhu Tian's flirt, I don't know if he will feel sorry for him?Or turned around and got married again?

Xuan Jin also couldn't tell why he still had the leisure to think about such a boring question when life and death were at stake.But as soon as the image of Zhu Tian hugging someone else and being affectionate appeared in his mind, he suddenly became inexplicably angry, gritted his teeth secretly, and thought viciously that when he arrived in the underworld, he must discuss with Lord Yan and send a bull-headed horse face to kill Zhu Tian's as soon as possible. The soul is hooked.

If you want to die, you have to take the surname Zhu to be buried with you!

The air in the coffin became thinner and thinner with his violent panting, Xuan Jin began to feel dizzy, and there was a constant buzzing in his ears, and it was as if several heavy rice bags were pressed against his chest, making him suffocated gas.

He twisted unconsciously, trying to dispel the pain of suffocation, but the more he struggled, the more difficult it was to breathe, and finally he was exhausted, only his eyes were wide open, staring blankly at the terrifying darkness in front of him.

It's so dark... It's like the deepest memory, the black cloth bag that almost took his life...